Re: Hackontest ideas?

["Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On 7/29/08, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 08:55:32AM +0700, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
>  > On 7/29/08, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
>  > > On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:55:45PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>  > >  > Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz> writes:
>  > >  >
>  > >  > > (What feature in Git or a Git-related tool would you implement, given 24
>  > >  > > hours staight and unlimited pizza supply?)
>  > >  >
>  > >  > "Use 'assume unchanged' bit to implement narrow checkout".
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > I think Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy is already working on this? (Though I think
>  > >  he does not use the assume unchanged bit; but this will be likely done
>  > >  before the end of September.)
>  >
>  > You are welcome to do ;) I got to narrow checkout from subtree
>  > checkout where 'assume unchanged' bit was unapplicable so my approach
>  > is a bit different, but probably 'assume unchanged' bit is the right
>  > way to go.
>
>
> But I rather liked the elegancy of just narrowing this down to a
>  particular subtree. Is there really a good reason to generalize this
>  further?

I think because it's doable and people do need to narrow to more than
one subtree sometimes. Also it would solve ".git* in parent
directories" problem that is really hard if you strictly do "narrow
down to a particular subtree".

-- 
Duy